The primary use case is mostly automation. In technical terms, the solution uses a playbook. The playbooks contain code. If you have written all the code in the playbook, you just execute that code. You can automate depending on the environment.
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Offers powerful automation with playbooks but could benefit from improved user-friendliness
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful.
What needs improvement?
It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly for customers who aren't skilled in coding and don't know how to use the playbook's code. If we have many customers and the modules already exist, the user can just plug and play.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We don't have many issues with stability, so I rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten. We have two customers using the solution.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is good.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is complex, and OpenShift would be much easier. It took a week to deploy the solution. When deploying the solution, you must download the installer and install the solution on the server.
It requires two engineers for maintenance and deployment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Customers need to pay yearly for the license. The pricing is acceptable. It is not expensive.
What other advice do I have?
If you know the basics of coding for you to write the playbook's code, and if you have a midrange environment with up to 1,000 servers, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a good option to automate daily tasks.
I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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A cloud solution for configuring the infrastructure with fair pricing and technical support
What is our primary use case?
We use the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to configure our infrastructure. It is mainly used to configure the whole activity.
How has it helped my organization?
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a good choice when you have different distribution platforms. If you have an infrastructure with Ubuntu, VPN, and Red Hat distributions, Ansible can integrate these platforms through a small inventory file, such as a custom image or file.
What is most valuable?
The role-based access control (RBAC) feature is the most valuable, especially when used with Azure Galaxy Infinity.
What needs improvement?
Ansible is good at managing applications or devices on the existing infrastructure but cannot provision those devices.
The tool should allow us to create infrastructure. It has everything when it comes to management, but it lacks the provisioning aspect.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for three years. We're using the latest version of the solution
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution’s stability is good. I rate it a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the solution’s scalability a ten out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support are good. It is good if you know how to create and operate it, but it can be difficult for someone who does not have the knowledge of how to configure the YAML file. There is some technical difficulty here.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward.
What was our ROI?
We have seen an ROI as we are still using the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is okay.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend using the solution. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
A scalable solution that can be used for configuration management and automation
What is our primary use case?
I use the solution for all kinds of automation, network automation, compliance security, software installation, and software configuration. I started using the solution as a configuration management tool, and now I also use it for automation. I also use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform within the CMP platform Morpheus.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation.
What needs improvement?
The solution should add a nice self-service portal.
The standard single-node installation is easy. When you have a protection grade installed, and the customer wants DR, it creates a problem. For example, if you have the database built in, but the customer wants to use RDS, you have to tweak it. Then, you have to use the governance policies and everything accompanying them. Some customization takes place, but overall, it's easy if vendors use a straightforward method.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for many years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a very stable solution. I rate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform an eight out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Around 10 users use the solution in our organization, a presales and sales company. Around 1,000 users used the solution in my previous organization.
I rate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform a nine out of ten for scalability.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is not it's not hard. The steps to install the solution seem to be easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Users have to pay a per-node cost of around $ 100 per node. The solution's pricing depends upon the volume.
What other advice do I have?
Users have to lay out how they want to build the solution. They should first build smaller job templates and then add them together to build workflow job templates.
Overall, I rate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Best configuration management tool on the planet
What do you like best about the product?
Configuration and installation automation is very easy with ansible and best tool for deployment to many servers
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislike about it since very good platform
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Complete fully automation for devops and cloud
A stable solution with a lot of modules to automate one's day-to-day activities
What is our primary use case?
I am using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as a part of the scale-up of the nodes in OpenShift.
Mostly, we use the solution for upgrading-related stuff.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is that Ansible is agentless.
What needs improvement?
For my day-to-day operations, the one module that I am using is very good, and it is giving the intended results. Ansible has a lot of modules to perform your day-to-day activities. I don't think there will be room for improvement based on the current instances or use cases.
The scalability of the solution has some shortcomings. Thus, the solution's scalability has some room for improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
Though not much, I have experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for two years. I am a customer of the solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for Ansible is very easy.
I'm not using the solution in this containerization. In the present environment, we are not using something like Red Hat Ansible Tower. We are using just an Ansible node which is something we use as a server for accessing all of our nodes and managing all of the nodes. Also, building an Ansible node as a bastion or jump host is a pretty easy task.
What other advice do I have?
Actually, when you are building Ansible Tower, I think you need to go for the pricing. For other things, you don't need to do that, I guess. So it's a pretty good tool to automate your day-to-day or daily tasks or activities that can be done with Ansible. It has a lot of features, helping materials, and modules, which will be helpful in automating one's day-to-day jobs. It's pretty easy for us to upgrade and work with the nodes on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
If you go with any other tools, like Chef or Puppet, they are very hard to configure. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is agentless and pretty straightforward. It will reduce a lot of our headaches in general.
I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Automation using Ansible Automation Platform
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about the Ansible Automation Platform is its UI. Very user-friendly and easy to create templates, inventories, projects and credentials. Wide variety of modules makes it irreplaceable and integrate with multiple tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it lags a bit. Whenever we commit the code in a repo, its not reflecting automatically. I have to go to projects manually and refresh the scm, which is time consuming
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I wanted to automate server validations, restart multiple servers with various validations and Active-Active scenarios, and Handover the automation to support engineers. The UI made it easy to use the Ansible automation platform for the support engineers.
Ansible
What do you like best about the product?
It provides a framework for the infrastructure team to create playbooks for automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice to split the console into multiple monitors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It reduces the time to deliver on service requests and minimizes the time that it takes to provision new environments that support software development.
Very powerful and easy to use!
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy the focus on open source and community involvement.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am still unsure of all the different use cases which can be applied to our environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping user configurations, updates, and deployments easy
Automation made simple
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible makes automation simple to approach and adopt in an enterprise environment. There's not many technology which Ansible isn't applicable to.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ansible's limited in the cloud resource provisioning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ansible provides a universal abstraction layer to how we operate our systems. This allows us to use a single toolset to solve many problems across the technology domain.
Solid Platform
What do you like best about the product?
AAPv2 introduced Automation Mesh, allowing me to better extend our automation .
What do you dislike about the product?
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's licensing can be kind of painful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Repeatability of infrastructure configuration and deployments
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